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M. TOBIN.

ART OF PACKING TOBA'GGO IN GASES.

N0. 290,818. PatentedDec.25,1883.

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MICHAEL TOBIN, OF BALDWVINSVILLE, NEW YORK.

ART OF PACKING TOBACCO lN CASES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,818, dated December25, 1883.

Application filed March 31, 1883. No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MICHAEL TOBIN, of

' Baldwinsville, in the county of Onondaga, in

State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Artof Packing Tobacco in Cases, of which the following, taken inconnectionwith the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention consists in an improvement in the art of packingleaf-tobacco in cases, so as to prevent the overlapping ends of thetobacco from becoming entangled with each other, and render the severallayers or courses of tobacco readily separable from each other withoutdanger of injuring the tobacco, thereby affording ready and safe accessto the interior of the pack, and allowing a portion of the tobacco to bewithdrawn therefrom for sampling the tobacco.

In carrying out the aforesaid process, I proceed in the followingmanner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure1 is a horizontal section taken immediately over the second course oftobacco placed in the case, and showing the application of the means forleveling or separating the successive layers or courses of tobacco, andFig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

A represents the box or case, constructed in the ordinary manner and ofthe usual size to contain the leaf-tobacco, which is generally placedtherein in layers or courses, the successive layers being arrangedalternately with the butt-ends of the tobacco toward opposite ends ofthe case, and the tip ends of the tobacco overlapping each other.Although more or less care is usually taken in properly disposing thetobacco in the case A, yet the tip ends of the tobacco become more orless entangled, and are caused to adhere to each other sufficiently toprevent the layers from being easily separated and a portion of thetobacco to be withdrawn therefrom for sampling the tobacco, the samplingbeing usually effected by removing the cover of the case, then invertingthe case and lifting it off from the tobacco. The samples are thenobtained by raising a portion of the tobacco at one end of the pack andwithdrawing the desired quantity, and in so doing the entangledinnerends of the tobacco cause more or less damage to the sampleobtained and to that portion of the pack of tobacco from which thesample is taken.

It is to obviate the aforesaid injurious resultswhich my invention hasfor its object; and to that end it consists, essentially, in placingacross the tip ends of each preceding layer or course of tobacco a sheetor strip, a, of

metal or other suitable material, then introducing into the case thenext layer of tobacco, laying the overlapping ends thereof upon the saidstrip, and applying across the top of the overlapping part of saidsucceeding layer another strip or board, I), and pressing the latterdown with sufficient force to smooth out the overlapping portions of thetwo layers of tobacco, and thus prevent their entanglement, the strips aand I) being shifted from layer to layer of tobacco throughout theprocess of packing the case, the several courses of tobacco beingsuccessively subjected to the compressing, straightening, and smoothingaction of the strips or boards a and b, in the manner before described.Tobacco thus packed in cases admits of being readily separated inlayers, and a sainpleof tobacco can be extracted when desired withoutdanger of injuring the tobacco.

Having described my invention, what I claim 1s The withindescribedimprovement in the art of packing leaf-tobacco in cases, consisting inplacing the hands in layers, with the butt-s of the successive layersturned alternately toward opposite ends of the case, and piling andpress- MICHAEL TOBIN. [L. s.]

\Vitnesses:

O. H. DUELL, F. H. GIBBs.

